TerreStar Solutions Inc. is asking Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada to hand it more spectrum so it can effectively deploy its current AWS-4 holdings and begin work on a new national fixed wireless and satellite service, a request that some telecoms...
Though included in its platform, the mandate letters for the cabinet ministers of British Columbia’s new NDP government don’t place improving digital infrastructure in the province on their list of priorities.
In his letter from new Premier John Horgan, Minister of...
The federal government will spend $13.2 million on mobile satellite telecom equipment that it says will improve communication for public servants working abroad or in remote locations. Shared...
Telus Corp. said Wednesday it has launched a service that allows doctors to communicate with each...
Business customers of BCE Inc.’s network will be able to use an energy...
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer has added his voice to a campaign in Quebec...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is challenging the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to order its search engine to delist specific results in the United States, asking a U.S. court to declare that a recent SCC decision cannot be enforced in that country.
“The...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has closed its spectrum sale to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, the company announced Monday. The $430-million transaction of seven 2500MHz and 700MHz licences in southern Ontario,...
The former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., Guy Laurence, has been elected to the supervisory board...
Blackberry Ltd. will now be able to provide its mobile device...
The government will dip into its Connecting Canadians program to subsidize high-speed internet in 13 rural and remote communities in Quebec. More than 2,800 households in Saint-Damien and...
A group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...
The CRTC has launched a consultation on changing its wholesale wireless roaming rules, following a call...
Joe Natale, president and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., reiterated...
Rogers Communications Inc. has launched a device that allows users to monitor vehicle maintenance and...
The federal government should focus on funding digital connectivity in rural and remote communities and provide tax incentives to boost private sector infrastructure spending, suggests a new report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Despite private sector investments that have allowed 96 per cent of Canadians to have access to broadband download speeds of at least five megabits per second, coverage gaps still exist in rural and northern areas where it’s not economically feasible for...
The CRTC’s incoming vice-chairwoman of broadcasting, Caroline Simard, has...
The Quebec Superior Court has approved a class-action lawsuit against BCE Inc. for unilaterally changing the terms of contracts for its internet, landline, wireless and telephone services. The...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s president of consumer business, Dirk Woessner, is leaving the company and...
The European Union’s elimination of roaming charges has pushed global mobile roaming revenue numbers down, according to a new report by Juniper Research. The EU recently said it was eliminating roaming charges after it came...
The United States is calling for its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners to limit restrictions and make it easier for its companies to compete in their telecommunications markets. As part of the United States’ NAFTA renegotiation objectives, released Monday, the office of the United States trade representative outlined the need for more open access to Canadian industry, including pledges to make conditions of cross-border service exchanges “fair and open.” It follows...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted...
Autonomous cars are one promising area for collaboration between Canada and the United States, Innovation...
The government should consider dividing the CRTC into separate telecom and broadcast regulators partly to ensure both issues get a fair view, according to a letter from the Internet Society of Canada (ISOC). The letter,...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is being sued for patent infringement by TiVo Inc. and one of its...
Cogeco Inc. can look to cable in the United States to see sustained growth compared to a harsher cable market in Canada, according to Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. “Relative to...
Cogeco Inc. reported stronger revenues and profits for its fiscal third quarter, the first earnings...
Canadians’ use of smartphones for banking activities has nearly doubled over the past three years, according to a new report by J.D. Power. The Canadian Retail Banking Satisfaction Study, released Thursday, found that mobile...
A joint statement from G20 leaders stemming from their two-day meeting last...
Canada’s social network usage is projected to grow steadily over the next four years but growth will slow compared to previous years, according to a report by research company eMarketer Inc. The number of Canadians using social networking platforms from companies like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. will reach 21.2 million this year, amounting to about 58 per cent of the population, according to numbers provided by eMarketer on Wednesday. This number will grow to 23.1 million by 2021, about 60.7 per cent of the Canadian population. Despite that growth, the rate at which it will get...
On Wednesday, major internet and tech companies teamed up to rally against...
BCE Inc.’s new quad band LTE-advanced (LTE-A) service is now live in nearly 40 cities in eight provinces, the company announced Wednesday. In an email, spokeswoman Jacqueline Michelis said the technology is now available...
Customers of Rogers Communications Inc.’s flanker brand, Fido, are being offered free wireless data...
The CRTC approved Tuesday an application by sponsor Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. to add Alaraby Television Network to its list of non-Canadian channels authorized for distribution. Ethnic Channels group said in its...
The federal cabinet should overturn a spring CRTC decision mandating wireless service providers establish a system for emergency alerts so that a Quebec-based emergency information service can participate in the proceeding, Avis de Recherche (ADR) argued in a petition to the...
Following a pledge last week to connect certain Quebec communities, the federal government will once again dip into its Connecting Canadians fund to provide capital to the tune of $10 million for...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved the transfer of spectrum licences from Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile. ISED said in a Monday release that the...
At the end of this week, following the departure of its vice-chairman of...
Telecom service resellers will have an extra year to comply with a CRTC order to register with the regulator. A January order “directed all non-carriers with existing service contracts or other arrangements with Canadian...
Major internet-based companies and organizations are preparing to participate in a Wednesday campaign...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has launched a consultation on the licensing of unassigned or returned spectrum. That includes three 700MHz licences in the North, 62 licences in the 2500 MHz band, as...
The increase in Canadian fibre broadband subscriptions slowed in 2016, slipping to ninth in growth among 35 Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) countries. According to December 2016 numbers released...
Rogers Communications Inc. has increased its mobile data overage rates to a cost per gigabyte of $70 for new plans. The changes, instituted Wednesday, include a two-cent increase per megabyte — to seven cents from five —...
Telecommunications service providers must give customers a heads up of at least four business days before disconnecting or suspending a service to end users or another service provider, the CRTC said in a Thursday decision, imposing new regulations following an inter-company dispute that left thousands without phone service last year. In its decision, the CRTC said while there are plenty of provisions regulating notifications between service providers with respect to discontinuation or suspension of service, none of them mandate that customers have to be informed. “Given the...
Leif Johansson, chairman of the board at Ericsson AB, will not be available for re-election at the...
The encounters with stakeholders that formed part of the rationale for his...
Canada is a leading country in its commitment to cyber security, according to a new report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The Global Cybersecurity Index 2017 report, released Wednesday, listed Canada in...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile is refusing to pay Iristel Inc. for some services in a move that relates to an ongoing proceeding in front of the CRTC over traffic stimulation, Iristel...
Mandating wholesale access as a condition of funding for projects under the CRTC’s new broadband funding regime will increase costs while effectively discouraging investment, two of the country’s largest telcos said. “While we recognize that the Commission has historically required wholesale access as a condition of receiving subsidies, there should be no obligation to provide wholesale access services under this program,” BCE Inc. said in an intervention in a consultation on the new regime. The CRTC issued a call in April for input on the $750-million fund for improving...
A Northern mobile wireless provider is asking the CRTC to compel a pair of incumbents to strike roaming...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is increasing the data limits of wireless...
The Ottawa-Gatineau radio market can’t sustain another station, the CRTC said in a Friday decision, and won’t consider an application for a new ethnic station in the area. The decision comes following a...
More than six dozen civil society organizations and individuals have come out to reiterate support for stronger data encryption in a letter addressed to a quintet of the world’s intelligence...
Activity by a working group tasked with studying the implementation of an audience measurement system via...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp.’s president and CEO, Ron Styles, will...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has named Antoinette Noviello vice-president, corporate comptroller. “Antoinette is now taking charge of all aspects of Videotron's financial and accounting operations, including credit-risk...
Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Wireless Inc. has been sold to an American holding and management company, United American Corp., the Florida-based company announced in a Wednesday press release. TNW Wireless, which serves...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s increased TV and Internet subscription numbers in the year’s third fiscal quarter reflect a team effort to increase the company’s wireline business, president and chief operating officer Jay Mehr said Wednesday.
“What I hope you’re...
Representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a statement lauding the creation of a coalition by some of the world’s biggest tech companies aimed at tackling terrorist content online. On...
OTTAWA — In a landmark ruling, Canada’s top court dismissed an appeal...
Some of the world’s largest technology and social media companies are forming a coalition to counter terrorism. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is being formed with the help of Facebook Inc., Microsoft...
The European Union has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 2.4 billion euros — about $3.6 billion in Canadian dollars — for giving itself an “illegal advantage” in its...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has named Philippe Cloutier its senior vice-president and chief financial officer, the company said in a press release Tuesday.
CEO and president Manon Brouillette said in the press release that Cloutier “is a brilliant financial strategist...
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural...
The CRTC’s vice-chairman of telecom, Peter Menzies, is leaving the CRTC nearly a year before the end of...
Leading up to Canada’s 150th anniversary, wireless promotions from incumbents and their flanker brands have increased noticeably compared to last year, according to Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. Promotions in the...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
While 5G is expected to arrive in a couple of years, the LTE standard still has some room for growth, according to Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Maher Yaghi. Sprint Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced in a...
Telus Corp. and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said in a Friday press release they have accomplished a 5G wireless connection using the global 3GPP technology standards platform. The companies said it’s “one of the most...
In their initial impressions of the government’s biggest attempt to...
Quebec-based X-Telia has deployed a network dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT) in Montreal, the company said in a press release Thursday. It said in the French-language release that it’s the first IoT-dedicated...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron gave an update on the progress of a partnership focused on testing 5G-related technology Wednesday, and announced the project will start accepting submissions from businesses, researchers and the public in the fall.
“There are...
Amazon.com Inc. is poised to expand its Canadian workforce by 200 positions, the Ontario government...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief customer officer, Deepak Khandelwal, and chief brand officer Dale Hooper have decided to leave the company, as those two departments get rolled into a single unit, Rogers said. The new...
OTTAWA — New national security legislation proposed Tuesday will enable...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will improve Internet service...
Judith LaRocque has been appointed acting CRTC chairwoman for a four-month term, effective June 18, according to a press release from the department of Canadian Heritage.
LaRocque takes over for former chairman Jean-Pierre Blais, whose term as CRTC chairman and CEO...
Now that former chairman Jean-Pierre Blais has departed the CRTC after five years at the helm, he leaves...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink is making 1 GB Internet speeds more widely available and will target the consumer market. "For years, we have been providing Gigabit speeds and higher to our larger business customers...
A move to ban device unlocking fees and mandate all new phones be sold unlocked by December could “slightly” increase churn rates, but the impact shouldn’t be material, Desjardins Capital...
Facebook Inc. said it wants to be a “hostile place” for terrorists, and outlined Thursday a series of steps it’s taking to counteract terrorism on its platforms. These actions include using artificial intelligence to...
OTTAWA — Grouping electronic devices with other goods when it comes to...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has launched a consultation on the renewal process for AWS and other spectrum licences it auctioned off in 2008. It said in a notice Thursday that the licences, which...
The CRTC said Thursday it won’t give Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron extra time to shut down its...
OTTAWA — After a year of study and hearing from 131 witnesses, some of...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee recommendation to expand the five-per-cent contribution broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) are required to make to the Canadian Media Fund to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) was dead on arrival Thursday, with both Prime...
As part of a decision on its review of the Wireless Code, the CRTC has eliminated unlocking fees for smartphones and mandated that all newly purchased devices must be provided unlocked as of Dec. 1, 2017. “Based on the...
Cogeco Inc. has launched its 1GB Internet service in Quebec for the first time, making gigabit speeds available in Trois-Rivières.
It said in a press release Tuesday that...
Shaw Communications Inc. announced Tuesday that it has purchased 700MHz and 2500MHz spectrum from Quebecor Inc. for $430 million, in what Shaw described as “a significant milestone towards...
Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the House of Commons committee on public safety and national security to amend a proposed law that governs border searches and is recommending a way that it...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais used what may prove to be his final address as head of the telecom regulator to issue recriminations for past practice and predictions for the future of the country’s cultural industries and the CRTC itself.
“I will not apologize for...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais did not reapply for his job as CEO of the country’s telecom and broadcast regulator, according to a report by the Canadian Press. The wire service reported Monday that Blais “says he believes...
The sale last week of Videotron’s AWS-1 spectrum by Quebecor Inc. to Rogers Communications Inc. isn’t likely to have implications for the company’s 700MHz spectrum, according to Canaccord...
Telus Corp. is building new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure across British Columbia and Alberta through 2020. The company announced in a press release Monday that Alberta will receive a capital injection of $4.2...
Two Ontario markets with prospective applications for broadcasting licences can’t sustain any new radio stations, the CRTC said Friday. In separate decisions posted online, the regulator said...
Quebecor Inc. has sold Videotron's AWS-1 spectrum in the Greater Toronto...
Winnipeg’s municipal leaders are toying with the idea of mandating the consideration of cell reception and towers for new developments in the city. On Tuesday, a city committee approved a recommendation for city council to...
BCE Inc. and a Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary have come to an agreement that will see Bell provide the wireless network for the Asian car maker's connected cars beginning this summer. The...
Average Internet traffic in Canada will grow 2.7-fold by 2021, while busy-hour Internet traffic, or traffic during the busiest 60-minute period in a day, will increase 3.8-fold, according to...
The Saskatchewan government will appoint someone to investigate the cost of expanding Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp.’s Internet coverage, Premier Brad Wall was reported as saying this week, according to CTV News. “SaskTel will need some capital to do this. This will not be an inexpensive proposition,” Wall was reported as saying Tuesday, adding that the amount was still undetermined, but that he would appoint a legislative secretary to write a report on “installing improved Internet coverage across the province.” In a research note last month, Desjardins Capital...
